In Diamond Square

It's the Gracia festival and Diamond Square fills with music and confetti. A man grabs your arm. "Your name is Colometa", he says. And with that sentence, your life is no longer your own.

Your class enters 1930s Barcelona. At first it's all street parties, colour and promises. But war is coming. The colours fade. The pigeons Quimet raises on the rooftop multiply and the sound of their wings blends with the sound of bombs. You must make the decisions Colometa made alone: resist, keep silent, survive.

This isn't an escape room of padlocks and keys. It's an escape room of choices. And the door you need to open is inside you.

Merce Rodoreda published In Diamond Square in 1962, in exile. It is the most translated Catalan novel in history and one of the great works about the Spanish Civil War, even though it almost never talks about battles. It talks about pigeons, a wedding, an apron, a square.

What makes this novel unique is its voice: Natalia — Colometa — tells her life with a blend of naivety and heartbreak that shatters you without warning. Our escape room rebuilds that experience. You don't play heroes. You play ordinary people trapped in a moment of history that's too big for them.